By Donna D. Dunn - Geneva Kent Elementry
Practice estimating angles with this fun geometry game Good Luck with your Mission—May the Force be with you!!!
Go to www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html Ø Locate your lost alien @computer generated location
Ø Set the angle to match the generated location.
Ø (Your answer will be correct within 5 degrees of the actual location)
Ø Click check to see if your answer is correct.
Ø You will see the difference between the angle you created and the alien’s angle
Did you save the Aliens ??
Math Playground - Area and Perimeter of Rectangles and Triangles Amanda Flora, 4th grade http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html We are currently learning about all the ways to classify triangles. Starting Friday, we will begin finding the area of triangles. My students especially struggled with finding area and perimeter of polygons, so I would like them to review that before we move onto finding area of triangles.
First, the students would go the Math Playground website from my portaportal.com ( guest access aflora). Next, they would click on manipulatives-area and perimeter. (http://www.mathplayground.com/area_perimeter.html )This activity reviews the concept of area and perimeter of rectangles. It also gives them an interactive ruler to measure and find the area and perimeter. After their basic review and activity, the students will go back to the Math Playground home page, math videos, geometry, and then area of a triangle. They will watch the video as an introduction to our Math Expressions lessons on Area of a Triangle. http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_area_triangle.html *Assessment- write three things they would need to tell an absent student about finding the area of a triangle. *Extension- (in small math groups) in a previous lesson, the students used an interactive geoboard to make triangles (acute, obtuse, right) This week, they could add onto what they did with the triangles, by building them, finding the area, and clicking “measures” to see if they were correct. http://www.mathplayground.com/geoboard.html
Tangram Puzzle Crystal Smith-Math Playground Before I did a lesson on translations, rotations, and reflections, I would have them get on the Tangram game under Logic games on the www.mathplayground.comsite. The Tangram puzzle game gives each student so many pieces they have to move around to fit the outlined shape. This would encourage discovery of key points on their own before I even teach the subject! After they have done several puzzles, I would put some up on the Intelliboard and work on them together. I would also have the vocabulary words somewhere posted, and then show examples of what each was. At that point I would introduce vocabulary that fit what they are doing at the time. This would encourage math talk and (hopefully) a few “ Yeah! Wow! That’s what I did!” moments. Even if the game did not allow them a certain move, we could talk look at shapes and think what would happen if I could flip it? Slide it? Rotate it? Could I make this shape? Modeling this as we worked on it together would end up teaching the lesson and having lots of student participation at the same time.
Which Unit of length is appropriate?
Deanna Pottorff, Guyandotte, First Grade
First grade students will view length, height, and width and measure using inches. Students will use an on screen ruler and measure items and decide how long, tall, or wide each item might be. The http://hbschool.com/jingles/jingles site offer more practice also. This site will provide an example which can be projected on the Smart board then things can be drawn in to provide more practice. You have to explain and show first graders what an inch is on a ruler and let them practice using a ruler. When students grasp knowledge of inches then move to centimeters. Always explain where to start when using a ruler or these young ones might begin in the middle or at the end of the ruler instead of beginning with 0.
Making Change
www.mathplayground.com/making_change.html
Ami Mandt - 3rd Grade I would use this program for the students having difficulty with money facts. Students are given the cost on one side and the amount of money they have on the other. The student has to find the difference by clicking on the coins and dollars. The problem shows the picture of the money and the amount they have clicked on. ( I think this this is great.) When the student misses the problem, they have to try again. After the third attempt a show me box pops up and the student clicks on this box to get the correct answer. Then they move on to the next problem. If the student gets it correct on the first try - they earn 4 points and move on to the next problem.
Grand Slam - Multiplication and Division Facts - 2 lesson plans
Tracy Berry - 3rd grade
Goals: Reinforcing multiplication and division skills.
o http://www.mathplayground.com/gsmbegin.html · Grand Slam Math is a game designed to help students to become better at solving word problems. Level 2 will contain 12 multiplication and division single and multistep word problems. The questions start out easy and get a little harder as they go.
· I would use this site as a review or to reinforce multiplication and division skills. I believe that I would divide the class into two groups and have them play the game as teams against each other. I would have each student figure out the problem on their own paper before the team mate plugs the answer into the computer.
You can choose game one (addition/subtraction) or game two (multiplication or division)
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If you get the problem wrong, it tells you to try again
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It also has a help button if you do not understand the problem
This is a great game for students to play for word problem solving. This is a SBL lesson and would be great to use before the West Test.
Factor Trees
Denise Meadows, Grade 5
You can find this site by clicking on the following link http://www.mathplayground.com/ Go to Math games and find the Factor Trees game. I would use my whiteboard with this activity. Students will take turns finding the prime factorization by completing factor trees. Use the diagram to sort the factors,
Fraction Review with Guide the Gecko and Fraction Eaters
Leanne Woods - Grade 6
Use Guide the Gecko, a fraction game for grades 3-5, to find equivalent fractions, add fractions, and reduce fractions. This is a very basic activity and should only be used with children still learning how to make a fraction into a whole number.
For a faster paced game and more advanced group, play the game Decension and Fraction Eaters. They will need to find the picture, percentage. and equivalent fraction.
Model Your Math ProblemsCarla Ferrell - 4th grade
This lesson would be for my small group of struggling students working with word problems.
Once you get on the site, click Model Your Math Problems. Under Thinking Blocks - Addition and Subtraction, click on Set 1: Part-Whole with Two Parts. Students begin by playing and listening to the introduction. Once students have finished intro, do the first three problems together. Discuss step-by-step and the relationship between numbers and bars (model). Students complete the last five problems on their own (under teacher supervision, of course). If a student successfully completes Set 1, he/she may move on to Set 2.
Hoops! - Word Problem Practice
Ellen Jung-3rd Grade
I found a fun game in Word Problems. The game is called Hoops and it gives the students 5 word problems to solve. If they solve 5 problems correctly then they get a chance to shoot hoops!
The word problems are single and multi-step so they get mixed practice solving easier problems as well as more challenging ones. The students will definitely need scratch paper to solve some of the problems.
I chose Level 1 and it was just right for 3rd Grade.
Playground - Practicing Coordinate Graphing
Sandra Patterson - 4th grade - whole group http://mathplayground.com
Go to Math Games. Chose Space Boy to the Rescue. This game will allow students to locate coordinates. Friendly aliens get lost on their way to the first annual Convention of Extraterrestial Scientist held on Planet Algebra. A welcoming committee gives the coordinates and the student's job is to place Space Boy on the exact grid location. If the coordinate is correct an alien is rescued and the student scores. They have only 90 seconds to rescue as many aliens as possible.
Sweet Treats Cafe - Economics Application with Graphs and Ratios
Crystal Smith
Under Math Apprenticehttp://www.mathapprentice.com/Activity/explore.html, I would use the Sweet Treats Cafe activity. It includes reading a graph, figuring ratios of recipe ingredients, using real life scenerios for figuring price, profit, and projected income. This also becomes a economics lesson.
I would introduce this lesson as whole group first to go through all the steps. This is definitely a multi-step class project. I would brainstorm as we work on this together to make connections with the real world. I would also do some background information to see if someone in the class owns or works at a bakery or owns a store and has to worry about ordering supplies.
I would then break the class into groups and put them onto computers. Since the activity puts in different graph information each time, most groups will not have the same data. I would have them finish the lesson and write down their end results for profit and cost of pie. I would have them share their results with the class.
Estimating Angles with Alien Angles
By Donna D. Dunn - Geneva Kent Elementry
Practice estimating angles with this fun geometry game Good Luck with your Mission—May the Force be with you!!!
Go to www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html
Ø Locate your lost alien @computer generated location
Ø Set the angle to match the generated location.
Ø (Your answer will be correct within 5 degrees of the actual location)
Ø Click check to see if your answer is correct.
Ø You will see the difference between the angle you created and the alien’s angle
Did you save the Aliens ??
Math Playground - Area and Perimeter of Rectangles and Triangles
Amanda Flora, 4th grade
http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html
We are currently learning about all the ways to classify triangles. Starting Friday, we will begin finding the area of triangles. My students especially struggled with finding area and perimeter of polygons, so I would like them to review that before we move onto finding area of triangles.
First, the students would go the Math Playground website from my portaportal.com ( guest access aflora). Next, they would click on manipulatives-area and perimeter. (http://www.mathplayground.com/area_perimeter.html )This activity reviews the concept of area and perimeter of rectangles. It also gives them an interactive ruler to measure and find the area and perimeter.
After their basic review and activity, the students will go back to the Math Playground home page, math videos, geometry, and then area of a triangle. They will watch the video as an introduction to our Math Expressions lessons on Area of a Triangle. http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_area_triangle.html
*Assessment- write three things they would need to tell an absent student about finding the area of a triangle.
*Extension- (in small math groups) in a previous lesson, the students used an interactive geoboard to make triangles (acute, obtuse, right) This week, they could add onto what they did with the triangles, by building them, finding the area, and clicking “measures” to see if they were correct. http://www.mathplayground.com/geoboard.html
Tangram Puzzle
Crystal Smith-Math Playground
Before I did a lesson on translations, rotations, and reflections, I would have them get on the Tangram game under Logic games on the www.mathplayground.com site. The Tangram puzzle game gives each student so many pieces they have to move around to fit the outlined shape. This would encourage discovery of key points on their own before I even teach the subject! After they have done several puzzles, I would put some up on the Intelliboard and work on them together. I would also have the vocabulary words somewhere posted, and then show examples of what each was. At that point I would introduce vocabulary that fit what they are doing at the time. This would encourage math talk and (hopefully) a few “ Yeah! Wow! That’s what I did!” moments. Even if the game did not allow them a certain move, we could talk look at shapes and think what would happen if I could flip it? Slide it? Rotate it? Could I make this shape? Modeling this as we worked on it together would end up teaching the lesson and having lots of student participation at the same time.
Which Unit of length is appropriate?
Deanna Pottorff, Guyandotte, First Grade
First grade students will view length, height, and width and measure using inches. Students will use an on screen ruler and measure items and decide how long, tall, or wide each item might be. The http://hbschool.com/jingles/jingles site offer more practice also. This site will provide an example which can be projected on the Smart board then things can be drawn in to provide more practice. You have to explain and show first graders what an inch is on a ruler and let them practice using a ruler. When students grasp knowledge of inches then move to centimeters. Always explain where to start when using a ruler or these young ones might begin in the middle or at the end of the ruler instead of beginning with 0.
Making Change
www.mathplayground.com/making_change.html
Ami Mandt - 3rd Grade
I would use this program for the students having difficulty with money facts. Students are given the cost on one side and the amount of money they have on the other. The student has to find the difference by clicking on the coins and dollars. The problem shows the picture of the money and the amount they have clicked on. ( I think this this is great.) When the student misses the problem, they have to try again. After the third attempt a show me box pops up and the student clicks on this box to get the correct answer. Then they move on to the next problem. If the student gets it correct on the first try - they earn 4 points and move on to the next problem.
Grand Slam - Multiplication and Division Facts - 2 lesson plans
Tracy Berry - 3rd grade
Goals: Reinforcing multiplication and division skills.
o http://www.mathplayground.com/gsmbegin.html
· Grand Slam Math is a game designed to help students to become better at solving word problems. Level 2 will contain 12 multiplication and division single and multistep word problems. The questions start out easy and get a little harder as they go.
· I would use this site as a review or to reinforce multiplication and division skills. I believe that I would divide the class into two groups and have them play the game as teams against each other. I would have each student figure out the problem on their own paper before the team mate plugs the answer into the computer.
Donna Goodman - Geneva Kent 4th Grade
Go to www.mathplayground.com/GrandSlamNah1.html
This is a great game for students to play for word problem solving. This is a SBL lesson and would be great to use before the West Test.
Factor Trees
Denise Meadows, Grade 5
You can find this site by clicking on the following link http://www.mathplayground.com/ Go to Math games and find the Factor Trees game. I would use my whiteboard with this activity. Students will take turns finding the prime factorization by completing factor trees. Use the diagram to sort the factors,
Fraction Review with Guide the Gecko and Fraction Eaters
Leanne Woods - Grade 6
Use Guide the Gecko, a fraction game for grades 3-5, to find equivalent fractions, add fractions, and reduce fractions. This is a very basic activity and should only be used with children still learning how to make a fraction into a whole number.
For a faster paced game and more advanced group, play the game Decension and Fraction Eaters. They will need to find the picture, percentage. and equivalent fraction.
Model Your Math ProblemsCarla Ferrell - 4th grade
This lesson would be for my small group of struggling students working with word problems.
Once you get on the site, click Model Your Math Problems. Under Thinking Blocks - Addition and Subtraction, click on Set 1: Part-Whole with Two Parts. Students begin by playing and listening to the introduction. Once students have finished intro, do the first three problems together. Discuss step-by-step and the relationship between numbers and bars (model). Students complete the last five problems on their own (under teacher supervision, of course). If a student successfully completes Set 1, he/she may move on to Set 2.
Hoops! - Word Problem Practice
Ellen Jung-3rd Grade
I found a fun game in Word Problems. The game is called Hoops and it gives the students 5 word problems to solve. If they solve 5 problems correctly then they get a chance to shoot hoops!
The word problems are single and multi-step so they get mixed practice solving easier problems as well as more challenging ones. The students will definitely need scratch paper to solve some of the problems.
I chose Level 1 and it was just right for 3rd Grade.
Playground - Practicing Coordinate Graphing
Sandra Patterson - 4th grade - whole group
http://mathplayground.com
Go to Math Games. Chose Space Boy to the Rescue. This game will allow students to locate coordinates. Friendly aliens get lost on their way to the first annual Convention of Extraterrestial Scientist held on Planet Algebra. A welcoming committee gives the coordinates and the student's job is to place Space Boy on the exact grid location. If the coordinate is correct an alien is rescued and the student scores. They have only 90 seconds to rescue as many aliens as possible.
Sweet Treats Cafe - Economics Application with Graphs and Ratios
Crystal Smith
Under Math Apprenticehttp://www.mathapprentice.com/Activity/explore.html, I would use the Sweet Treats Cafe activity. It includes reading a graph, figuring ratios of recipe ingredients, using real life scenerios for figuring price, profit, and projected income. This also becomes a economics lesson.
I would introduce this lesson as whole group first to go through all the steps. This is definitely a multi-step class project. I would brainstorm as we work on this together to make connections with the real world. I would also do some background information to see if someone in the class owns or works at a bakery or owns a store and has to worry about ordering supplies.
I would then break the class into groups and put them onto computers. Since the activity puts in different graph information each time, most groups will not have the same data. I would have them finish the lesson and write down their end results for profit and cost of pie. I would have them share their results with the class.